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ALIFE
2004
13 years 7 months ago
Basic Autonomy as a Fundamental Step in the Synthesis of Life
In the search for the primary roots of autonomy (a pivotal concept in Varela's comprehensive understanding of living beings), the theory of autopoiesis provided an explicit cr...
Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo, Alvaro Moreno
MM
2006
ACM
184views Multimedia» more  MM 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Extraction of social context and application to personal multimedia exploration
Personal media collections are often viewed and managed along the social dimension, the places we spend time at and the people we see, thus tools for extracting and using this inf...
Brett Adams, Dinh Q. Phung, Svetha Venkatesh
SIGCSE
1997
ACM
119views Education» more  SIGCSE 1997»
13 years 12 months ago
Exploring Martian planetary images: C++ exercises for CS1
We present a series of programming exercises based on photographic images of Mars collected by the NASA Viking Orbiter. Even without the news that there may once have been life on...
Harriet J. Fell, Viera K. Proulx
COBUILD
1999
Springer
14 years 2 days ago
Bringing the Marks on a Whiteboard to Electronic Life
This paper discusses our implementation and experience with a camera-based whiteboard scanner. The ZombieBoard system (so called because it brings to electronic life the marks on a...
Eric Saund
GROUP
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Locating patient expertise in everyday life
Coping with a new health issue often requires individuals to acquire knowledge and skills to manage personal health. Many patients turn to one another for experiential expertise o...
Andrea Civan, David W. McDonald, Kenton T. Unruh, ...